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After "Operation riposte" against sites such as Mastercard or Paypal, to revenge Julian Assange the founder of Wikileaks, members of Anonymous attacked on Sunday, February 6, HBGary Federal ; a U.S. security company .

The website of the company first suffered from a denial of service DDOS attack to saturate the servers, but it was accessible again Monday. The Twitter account of the group's CEO, Aaron Barr has also been hacked.

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According to Anonymous, HBGary forwarded to the FBI a lot of information on suspected members of the network. To do this, HBGary have monitored the emails and Facebook accounts of some "Hackers". The company had also used false identities on instant discussion platforms to gather information.

After a series of computer attacks in December, in support of Wikileaks, which disseminated confidential cables of American diplomacy, several people were arrested. Two Dutch teenagers, one French and five British were arrested for their relations with Anonymous, between end of December and end of January. FBI also announced having emitted over 40 search warrants In the USA.